The Imperial Orgy An Account of the Tsars from the First to the Last |
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| Author:
| Saltus, Edgar |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4921-3451-0 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2013 |
| Publisher: | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $8.99 |
Book Description:
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"The long illness that Russian history is" unfolds rapidly, frightfully, in this survey of the tsars from Ivan to Nicholas-the illness of delirium, of madness. Allusion after allusion recalls for comparison countless horrors out of all history, yet one feels that this horror chamber of Russian royalty has more than a match for them all. And in the background one senses a secondary portrayal, drab hangings that set in relief the barbaric show of the rulers-the primitive,...
More Description"The long illness that Russian history is" unfolds rapidly, frightfully, in this survey of the tsars from Ivan to Nicholas-the illness of delirium, of madness.
Allusion after allusion recalls for comparison countless horrors out of all history, yet one feels that this horror chamber of Russian royalty has more than a match for them all. And in the background one senses a secondary portrayal, drab hangings that set in relief the barbaric show of the rulers-the primitive, stupid, inchoate mass of the Russian people.
Written with the author's usual cleverness and realism, the account in a measure shocks, as naturally it must, but never to the point of disgust. Not least important in contributing to the total effect of the book is the series of portraits of the tsars and tsaritsas that accompanies the narrative.